2.2.1

Bug fixes

• Fix errors and warnings when importing library on Windows
• Fix Vector backend raising ValueError when hardware is not connected

Installation

Get it from PyPi:

pip install -U python-can==2.2.1

2.2.0

Major Features

• Fallback message filtering implemented in Python for interfaces that don't offer better accelerated mechanism. #157, #277, #104
• SocketCAN interfaces have been merged (socketcan_native and socketcan_ctypes), this is now completely transparent for the library user. #326
• automatic detection of available configs/channels in supported interfaces (see #303)
• Added synchronized (thread-safe) Bus variant. #315
• context manager support for the Bus class. #283
• added CSVReader. Improved testing of CSVReader/CSVWriter #270
• Notifier supports multiple buses #332

Removals

• Dropped support for Python 3.3 (officially reached end-of-life in Sept. 2017)
• Deprecated the old CAN module, please use the newer can entry point (will be removed in version 2.4). #267

Interface Specific Changes

There were many changes and a lot of cleanup effort in the individual interfaces. Some of the highlights:

SocketCAN

Use socketcan in the future instead of socketcan_native or socketcan_ctypes

• Cyclic improvements #323
• Fix version selection. #293
• Low level fixes. #296

VectorCAN

• CAN FD support #311
• Fix bug where messages were sent to only one virtual channel #302
• Various fixes in #258:
  • Avoid polling by using Win32 events when possible
  • Support for receive_own_messages argument

PCAN

Use configured bitrate. #254

USB2CAN

Show stopping bug #219 has been fixed.

Minor Changes

• Minor api change to the can.Notifier adding add_listener and remove_listener methods #266
• SqlReader and SqlWriter have been renamed to SqliteReader and SqliteWriter. #263
• readers/writers now support error frames correctly. #217, #247, #256
• bug fixes
• a lot of (CI) testing effort. #342
• improved documentation
• code cleanup. #309

Installation

Get it from PyPi:

pip install -U python-can==2.2.0

2.1

• Support for out of tree can interfaces with pluggy.
• Initial support for CAN-FD for socketcan_native and kvaser interfaces.
• Neovi interface now uses Intrepid Control Systems's own interface library.
• Improvements and new documentation for SQL reader/writer.
• Fix bug in neovi serial number decoding.
• Add testing on OSX to TravisCI
• Fix non english decoding error on pcan
• Other misc improvements and bug fixes

Available in all good cheese shops:

pip install python-can==2.1.0

Documentation available on readthedocs.

2.0

After an extended baking period we have finally tagged version 2.0.0!

Quite a few major Changes from v1.x:

• New interfaces:
  • Vector
  • NI-CAN
  • isCAN
  • neoVI
• Simplified periodic send API with initial support for SocketCAN
• Protocols module including J1939 support removed
• Logger script moved to module can.logger
• New can.player script to replay log files
• BLF, ASC log file support added in new can.io module

You can install from PyPi with pip:

pip install python-can==2.0.0

The documentation for v2.0.0 is available at http://python-can.readthedocs.io/en/2.0.0/